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Standardisation for the 21st century

18/12/2018

Test organisations have strived for standardisation for years. Early technology standardisation projects aimed to limit the variety of test equipment used in test solutions across the organisation.

Trialling a wireless temperature and humidity sensor for electricity substations

18/12/2018

The University of Strathclyde Power Networks Demonstration Centre (PNDC) is a research, demonstration and deployment centre for emerging electrical power system technologies and accelerating smart grid implementations.

The understanding of reliability

18/12/2018

Back in November 2018, my comment page (Paige’s page) asked the questions: ‘Can a robot do that? Should a robot do that?’ Quite simply, I’d seen that a team of SEAT engineers were tasked with reproducing the action of getting in and out of a car to test the resistance of its seats. Surely this was a task that could be easily automated and it made me wonder why SEAT have chosen to do it this way.

Data capture solution for the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre

18/12/2018

Argenta has delivered a paperless shop floor management solution to the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC). The solution used Argenta's expertise in implementing LabVIEW for data capture and in developing bespoke software.

New medical device regulation causing widespread industry confusion

03/12/2018

The European Commission has instigated a major restructure to the EU’s medical device regulatory framework, and medical device designers and manufacturers now face significant changes.

Test Measurement Features

Standardisation for the 21st century

Trialling a wireless temperature and humidity sensor for electricity substations

The understanding of reliability

Data capture solution for the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre

New medical device regulation causing widespread industry confusion